An experimental validation of a low-cost indoor relative position localizing system for mobile robotic networks

2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 169-174

  Milano, Alessandro ^a   Priolo, Attilio ^a   Gasparri, Andrea ^a   Di Rocco, Maurizio ^a   Ulivi, Giovanni ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE CONTROL ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FORMATION CONTROL; LIGHT EMITTERS; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MULTIROBOTS; RELATIVE DISTANCES; RELATIVE POSITIONS; VISUAL FIELDS;

ALGORITHMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 80052348294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2011.5983134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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